Women's careers follow a wide variety of pathways but one thing we know is that most women are not opting out of the workplace, despite what the media would have us believe.  In the 21st century we've got to stop focusing on the old paradigm of work-life balance and recognize that work is an integral [...]

Greetings from the Melbourne, Australia, the site of the 51st International Council for Small Business (ICSB) World Conference.  We have over 450 delegates attending from approximately 50 countries.  The theme of the conference is “unique solutions for unique environments” and the role of women in the entrepreneurial economy has been a very important track.  
My job [...]

Several years ago when I was a visiting faculty member at London Business School there was a poster in the hallway outside my office.  A quote from Andre Gide, it said:  “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
I am getting ready to “to [...]

“No” is probably the simplest answer one can give or receive. At our first Diana International Symposium on Growth Oriented Businesses in Stockholm, Sweden a few weeks ago, one of the panelists talked about how saying “no”, learning from hearing “no”, and not taking “no” for an answer can be an asset to growth.  Surprised? [...]

I was recently forwarded an article printed in Fortunequestioning why women don't seem to create the kinds of companies that wind up on its listing of the nation's biggest companies.  
The article raises questions about whether women just don't have big aspirations for building and leading companies. Oh, please!  Can't we get past all this?  It's [...]

Let's talk about being pro-choice. Relax. Not that kind.
I'm a part of the generation that took to the barricades to make reproductive decisions the right of each woman, to chose, for herself. Along with millions of other women (and men, too) I marched, picketed, wrote letters, circulated petitions and voted to make darned sure that [...]